Police puzzle over teen's shooting

Updated 7:12 am, Friday, November 23, 2012

Police examine a Honda passenger car driven to Gibbs Sprawl and Walzem roads about 8:45 a.m. on Thursday by a teenage shooting victim who was critically injured. Photo Ana Ley

Police examine a Honda passenger car driven to Gibbs Sprawl and Walzem roads about 8:45 a.m. on Thursday by a teenage shooting victim who was critically injured. Photo Ana Ley

Police puzzle over teen's shooting

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Police are puzzling over the shooting of a critically wounded teenager who drove himself to a Northeast Side convenience store for help but then was uncooperative with police.

Sgt. Ramiro Juarez said the shooting victim, who is believed to be in his late teens, was seen about 8:45 a.m. as he was falling out of the driver's seat of a Honda passenger car in the parking lot of Gibbs Mart on the 7100 block of Gibbs Sprawl Road.

A Good Samaritan came to his aid, and when police and paramedics arrived, the teen refused to say his name. He was not carrying ID, and the vehicle he was driving is registered to a woman, Juarez said.

Police said the teen also refused to say where the incident occurred or who shot him.

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Juarez said it appears as though the shooting may have been the result of a drug deal gone bad because officers discovered drugs on the shooting victim and inside the Honda passenger car he was driving.

San Antonio police are working with the Bexar County Sheriff's Office and the Windcrest Police Department because the convenience store is located near their jurisdictions' borders.